Jose Fernandez’s family wants his newborn daughter to be estate’s sole heir

Having said that, I feel obligated to make a quick point here: It’s not that I want baseball to be full of PED users. Far from it. I desperately want our game to be clean, with everyone Cheap Fan Jerseys competing on a level playing field. I love the idea of strict testing and severe punishments. Hell, I’ll champion the idea of MLB tying Hall of Fame eligibility to PED suspensions in the future.

Right now, it’s an 80-game suspension for the first positive test, a 162-game suspension for the second and a lifetime suspension for the third. Let’s add “ineligible for the Hall of Fame” to the equation. Want to keep a veteran superstar on the downside of his career from using PEDs? You can bet that would be a powerful deterrent. Let’s do everything we can to make the game clean going forward.

The late Jose Fernandez’s family members want to make his newborn daughter the sole heir to his estate.

ESPN reported Monday that family attorney Ralph Fernandez, no relation to the late pitcher, plans to file that motion in court soon and will also seek to have Fernandez’s mother, Maria Arias, declared the personal representative to the minor.

Fernandez died in a boating accident in South Florida Sept. 25 at the age of 24. The families of the other two passengers killed in that crash have filed wrongful death lawsuits against Fernandez’s estate, seeking $2 million each. According to ESPN, the estate is valued at $2 million to $3 million.

The late pitcher’s daughter, Penelope, was born Friday.

“This (baby) has been great for everyone,” Ralph Fernandez told ESPN. “This is the only bit of good news in the past five months since the tragedy.”